Geography (Superlative Part I)

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Geography


There are a lot of interesting phenomenon in the geography of the Earth. Here you have some examples:

The deepest spot in the oceans is called the Mariana Trench and is 35.979 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean. That's deeper than the height of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, which is 29.002 feet high.
Lake Titicaca in Peru is the highest navigable lake in the world. It is about 12.500 feet (3.810 metres) above the sea level.
The lowest lake is the Dead Sea (it's considered a lake but it's called a sea), which is in the Jordan Valley of Israel. The surface of the water is 1.302 feet below sea level. It is also the saltiest lake in the world. Almost nothing can survive in it besides some special green algae.
Lake Superior is the freshwater lake that covers the greatest surface area in the world, It covers over 82.000 km2 of land.
The largest ocean in the world, the Pacific Ocean, covers a third of the Earth's surface.
The smallest ocean is the Artic Ocean, which is one tenth the size of the Pacific Ocean.
The world's shortest river, according to the Guiness Book of World Records, is the Roe River. It is only 200 feet (61 metres) long and flows between Giant Springs and the Missouri River near Great Falls, Montana.


1. Try to find the superlatives that appear in the text. You can round them.




2. Now that you have some examples of superlative, can you guess the structure of this kind of superlatives?
3. Try to do the following exercise without looking the information that you have. Write down (make long sentences using the Superlative) who is the person or animal that is the most...

  • Tall
  • Short
  • Small
  • Big
  • Fast 
  • Slow
  • Nice



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